Chelsea really are an appallingly managed club. They sack their managers so easily... they sacked their last manager who won them the Double (the only time Chelsea FC have EVER won a Double in their entire history) and most of their other managers only last about 6 months.

Pathetic for a top club. How can they hope to have any kind of stability?

Mourinho would never go back, and Abramovich wouldn't have a manager back who would defy his meddling in the club.

This is the problem with a sugar daddy. The brilliance of Hiddink is that he is smart enough to come in and take Roman's money to run a group of superstars for short periods, but also Hiddink is smart enough to politely decline a permanent job under an owner who will never leave his manager to run the club.

Pretty fecking obvious some of the players weren't giving their all for him, I'd imagine their jobs are safe.

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I agree totally but their jobs being safe is only short term.It's obvious that those senior players are well past it.Why he didn't get rid of one or two that were clearly undermining him is down to experience and that is RB's fault.

When SAF has said that in being nominated as a future manager of a club of Utd you really need to prove it somewhere else he is talking so much sense...and for a club like Chelsea winning with Porto isn't really enough.

I'm no expert on Chelsea or FFP, but they are heavily reliant on the CL money aren't they

Could they afford a season without CL football

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Much depends on the FFP. If it works properly, it'll probably be a bit of a struggle.

Mind you, paying Porto near 15m pounds to get Villas Boas released, and now paying him compensation - possibly for the duration of his contract - is a huge chunk of money in itself. If you're looking to save/prevent yourself from losing money, that's not a particularly clever way to do it.

Di Matteo might do well for them. Its actually not a bad idea considering AVB lost the dressing room

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Yeah, Gary Neville just brought that up that the players weren't going to play at their best for AVB and he wants Chelsea to finish in the CL spot and not get knocked out of the FA Cup/CL so sacking AVB and having Di Matteo until the end of the season was the best option. Just a joke that the players have so much power there.

"Andre Villa-Boas has parted company with Chelsea Football Club today.

"The board would like to record our gratitude for his work and express our disappointment that the relationship has ended so early.

"Unfortunately the results and performances of the team have not been good enough and were showing no signs of improving at a key time in the season.

"The club is still competing in the latter stages of the Uefa Champions League and the FA Cup, as well as challenging for a top-four spot in the Premier League, and we aim to remain as competitive as possible on all fronts.

"With that in mind we felt our only option was to make a change at this time.

"With immediate effect Roberto Di Matteo has been appointed first team coach on an interim basis until the end of the season."

From the BBC

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What a classy club Chelski is! A public statement like is a disgrace! There is no need to mention the reason the parting of company as it is too obvious. Really poor PR to be honest. Now if Di Matteo is to be coaching till the end of season, they are saying he is in a better position than AVB in bringing the club to the glory they have mentioned in a big paragraph?!

Yeah, Gary Neville just brought that up that the players weren't going to play at their best for AVB and he wants Chelsea to finish in the CL spot and not get knocked out of the FA Cup/CL so sacking AVB and having Di Matteo until the end of the season was the best option. Just a joke that the players have so much power there.

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Agreed that player power at Chelsea is beyond a joke, but they are in that position now and they need to get those players motivated until the end of the season.

Roman is more to blame than the players are.....him interfering has got rid of Jose(Shevchenko and to a lesser extent Ballack weren't wanted), Carlo didn't want Torres.....and Torres addon effect was part of AVBs problems, Romans signings ruin managers plans.

Though the players had a bigger input in AVBs and Scolaris sackings than the other two.

Imo, it's stupid sacking a young manager without giving him a chance to make his own team at Chelsea. The spine of that team is still the same as it was under Jose (Cech, Terry, Essien, Lampard, Drogba) - they need to change the players not manager.

Also, it's all well and good blaming the "Old guard" but Drogba, A. Cole and Lampard are still some of Chelsea's better players. Their squad players like Malouda/Bosingwa/Luiz/Cahill and Torres seem much more of a problem to me. They've got a few good young lads in there (mata/sturridge/Romeu) who've done well. And I think a lot of the old lads have done well. Chelsea's problems extend a lot more beyond "get rid of the old guard" because they've got players like Mikel/Kalou and others in the middle age bracket who aren't good enough.